PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. Sabal glabra (Mill.) Sarg. Palmetto. In swamps, usually either muddy or calcareous. Occurs in most of the counties north of latitude 280, but is not abundant in Florida. Grows on several feet of peat near Palatka, if not elsewhere. North Carolina to Texas, in the coastal plain. Rhapidophyllum Hystrix (Pursh) W. & D. Needle Palm. In low, especially calcareous, hammocks, from Hernando and Orange Counties northward. Also on poor peat near the head of the Wacissa River in Jefferson County, and perhaps elsewhere. Coastal plain of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. CYPERACEAE. Sedge Family. Carex alata Torr. In muddy or calcareous estuarine swamps, etc. Franklin, Levy and Sumter Counties. Widely distributed in the glaciated region and coastal plain. Carex Crus-corvi ,Shuttl. Estuarine swamps of the Apalachicola River; n.ot common. Virginia to Minnesota, Florida and Texas. Carex stipata Muhl. In estuarine, muddy, or calcareous swamps, often with C. tribuloides. Franklin, Levy, Sumter and Lake Counties. Widely distributed in the Eastern United States. Also reported from Japan. Carex glaucescens Ell. On a few feet of peat in non-alluvial swamp between Gaberonne and Bohemia, Escambia Co. Also in small branch-swamps, etc., in various other places in the northernmost counties. South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi, mostly in the coastal plain. Carex Walteriana Bailey In a bay about two miles north of Greenville, Madison Co. Also -in Jackson and Franklin Counties; and probably in many other places with shallow sour stagnant water. Long Island to northern Florida, in the coastal plain. Carex impressa (S. H. Wright) Mackenzie (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 37: 236 1910.) Estuarine swamps of the Apalachicola River; not common. Ohio to Kansas, Georgia and Texas, mostly in the coastal plain. Until recently confused with the European C. riparia Curtis and the northern C. lacustris Willd. 345